1923

[JeffR]

or The Bathroom Stripped Bare by Her Renovator, Even

Most of what you see here hasn't been visible for 87 years. And most of it is invisible again now that the new walls are almost finished.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear JeffR!

These are wonderful, historic pictures!

Damn, but that house is older than I am, lol!

I hope your remodel is going well, and that you and Nance will love your new bathroom...

Thanks for sharing!

I hope there will be more pictures as the work goes forward...

:hi:

[JeffR]

3. Hi, Peggy!

The bathroom is going to be nice, if it ever gets finished. There's a handsome new toilet sitting in a box in the dining room, with a handsome new sink a few feet away. The living room is full of power tools, there's a stack of drywall in the front hallway, and we have to brush our teeth over the bathtub. It all sort of makes me wish I didn't work at home, but we're toughing out the primitive conditions. The dogs are delighted, because our contractor is a dog person, and they know it.

Tons more photos on hand, though many are pretty boring. I head in there once a day or so to document the progress.

[Mira]

2. You said you were renovating a bathroom, and now we know the extent, OH MY

this is astounding.
Your photos help me feel for what you're going through, they are stark and descriptive!

Looking at the structure it looks amazingly tight and solid. I like that. I remodeled a kitchen in a house I owned and rented about 8 years ago. The walls looked a lot like this once the cabinets were pulled, except there were large holes. In the holes were skeletons of dead rats.

If I told you I have photos YOU WOULD believe me.
You know me well enough by now to believe me.

Glad you're checking in, persevere, and don't forget us while you toil or supervise.

Oh
and I very much like the photos. Great clarity and lighting to my eyes.

[JeffR]

4. Yes, ma'am. Everything was gutted. I couldn't get a photo of the old

plumbing under the sub-floor without using a flash, and I don't like the result, but that alone was worthy of a museum. And that's where the structural integrity was quite poor, due to a number of puzzling decisions someone long dead made about where to run pipes and supports. It also turns out that the claw-foot bathtub, which even empty weighs maybe 600 pounds, was essentially being prevented from falling through the floor by One Big Nail.

Thanks for your comment on the lighting. With the curtain off the south-facing (and only) window, the light has been phenomenal on sunny mornings. Before I sit down to work, I nip in there with the camera just to capture the light at its best.

[NV Whino]

5. Is there horse hair in the plaster?

I know that was used frequently when doing lath and plaster, but it doesn't look like it from your photos.

[JeffR]

6. Didn't see any sign of it, though there was plaster on one wall that

looked a little peculiar, darker and different in texture than the rest (not shown in the photos above).

[maheanuu]

7. Lath and Plaster

I haven't seen any of that in years, back home in Orygun they used to use chicken wire as re inforcement. My Dad taught me how to plaster as a young lad, and I did a whole lot of it with Dad on our old home that he remodeled using Mom and I... About 9 years ago, I stopped at the old farm just to see it and talk to the owner, he let us in and allowed us to look around... He pretty well kept it as it was when Mom and Dad sold it to the owner before him, All his changes were to the Barns and equipment sheds... That house is now pushing 90 years, many of the corner posts and beams were Central Oregon juniper that had been hand cut by the old Italian immigrant that bought the land and grew gooseberries and plums for wine.. Thanks for sharing, sure brought back a lot of latent memories that I wouldn't have had otherwise.

Nice Show and tell bye the way....

[Celebration]

8. Did you find any hidden treasures?

That always happens on the TV show "If walls could talk".

[hippywife]

9. Very cool.

I have to tell you though when I scrolled thru and came to that third one, at first I thought it was some kind of animal peeking thru there. Have I mentioned that my vision has been somewhat blurry these days? :rofl:

:hi:

[Adsos Letter]

10. Good old lath and plaster; I repaired my share of that in my years as a painter...

These photos look great in Black and White, Jeff.

That old wiring looks scary! :scared: